The 20-year-old photo collective shows the work of its members at Speedwell Projects, where it’s based.
Leslie Bridgers
Columnist
Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
Best-Sellers: ‘The Sentence,’ ‘Atlas of the Heart’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
‘The 355’ finds an all-star cast in search of an all-star script
In general, the less time the actors in “The 355” spend speaking English, the better they come off. Spanish, German, Russian and French are just a few of the languages trotted out in the espionage thriller, which tries to broaden its overseas appeal by casting a wide net in its choice of actors and locations. […]
Indie Film: Curated by the community, Railroad Square film series soars
Cinematic Explorations epitomizes the symbiotic relationship an arthouse theater can have with its patrons.
Tap Lines: Barleywines sit well with sitting around
Maine brewers make versions of the bear of a beer that represent the style’s range.
Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ is a minimalist, maximalist masterpiece
Joel Coen, directing his first feature film without his brother, Ethan, brings a spare, coolheaded elegance to William Shakespeare’s blasted heath in “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” his minimalist-maximalist adaptation of the famous 17th century play. In fact, Coen’s production is so stylized, so stripped of visual and behavioral distractions, that it could be unfolding anywhere […]
‘Red Rocket’ is a movie in which cultural voyeurism masquerades as compassion
As a filmmaker, Sean Baker has built a cohesive body of work around stories from the margins of society. Well, one very particular margin: sex work. Baker’s 2015 breakout film, “Tangerine” – shot, evocatively, on iPhones and focusing on a transgender sex worker in Hollywood – followed 2012’s “Starlet,” about the unlikely friendship between a […]
Best-Sellers: ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘Crying in H Mart’
The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Art review: Art history, modernism converge in Portland gallery’s debut show
In ‘Stages,’ the new Alice Gauvin Gallery on York Street features five artists of vastly disparate styles.
Sports, sex and cinema are the focus of a young man’s world in the film memoir ‘The Hand of God’
Paolo Sorrentino (“Il Divo,” “The Great Beauty”) mines a deep vein of personal memory in “The Hand of God,” a semi-autobiographical film about a young man coming of age in 1980s Naples. Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) is 17, almost friendless, obsessed with soccer and living mostly happily with his parents, brother and sister in a […]